Happy 150th Birthday\, Purdue University

3 most students have left for the summer at purdue university.while it may be quiet on campus this morning... it's a big day.it's may 6th...and that means today is the university's birthday.

3< this purdue...is a lot different than this purdue.and may 6th 2019 -- a day where most students have gone home for the summer-- is a lot different than may 6th 1869...150 years ago."on may 6th, the indiana legislature passed the bill and the governor signed it.

That's the day purdue officially was born."

If you ask purdue historian john norberg, he will tell you the campus has grown..but the spirit of purdue is the same now as it was then."everything that has ever been done at this university still exists today."

Now on the university's birthday, he's compiled all the greatest stories over the past 150 years."what was it like to be a student here in the 1890s?

What was it like to be a student here after world war 2?

What was it like to be a student here in the be a student here in the late 1960s?

That was a very interesting time.l of those are questions will be answered in his new book ever true: 150 years of giant leaps at purdue university."purdue history, putting it all into one book is like trying to fill a thimble full of water gushing out of a fire hydrant."

In the book, he debunks a few tall tales "the chocolate shop was never a speakeasy.

John purdue really didn't intend for the university to be built in the town of chauncy, he actually was going to put it in battle ground.

Purdue had the first public medical school in indianapolis and gave into iu basically.

Edward c.

Elliott swore, literally, that he would not spend one penny on music at purdue.

He ended up spending 100 million pennies to build a hall of music."

But the story then and the story now is all about purdue people and their giant leaps."the message i'd like people to get is that this university, everything it has ever done, has been accomplished by people just like them.

That what we are doing today is going to be looked back upon 150 years from now and i believe they will be just as proud of what we're doing as we are proud of what people did before us."> 3 the 496-page book goes on sale today.norberg says he spent hundreds of hours in the purdue archives gathering information for the book.the book is selling for $44.95.we have a link to purchase it on wlfi.com.

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